Not always. You can still have network bottlenecks and etc that can be contributing factors. There's several apps out there that can help you look for these things, well worth hunting down. Also, double check and make sure you don't have AV scanning the backups, or going head to head against them and etc, that will really slow you down.

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Not always. You can still have network bottlenecks and etc that can be contributing factors. There's several apps out there that can help you look for these things, well worth hunting down. Also, double check and make sure you don't have AV scanning the backups, or going head to head against them and etc, that will really slow you down.

The only thing that will enchance the performace of BackupExec is to use another vendor.

but....

Ram is cheap, worth it if your system is low on ram. If you are disk disk backup to the backupexec media server, then yes. Storing it elsewhere is depending on the network. As Richard said, you may have network problems, Backups are network hungry when you are spanning multiple servers.

From my experience I highly doubt your server memory is the bottleneck... What are the specs of the equipment that Backup Exec is using. What Tape drive and connection to the server you are using would be a good start.

Does increasing ram in a server enhance the performance of backup exec?

It sounds like you don't know what your bottleneck is. I'd try this first:

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Also, double check and make sure you don't have AV scanning the backups, or going head to head against them and etc, that will really slow you down.

If that doesn't work... You could grab the Platespin Recon trial and run it while you have BE doing it's thing. It'll show you what resource is constrained, be it CPU, RAM, network bandwidth, disk IO, etc.